Altitude Angel, a global UTM technology provider, announced that it is to provide pre-flight situational awareness data across Europe, Africa, and Asia to drone operations management platform DroneLogbook. Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM Cloud will be used to power DroneLogbook’s compliance management platform with accurate, real-time, and relevant geospatial data, as well
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BlueHalo’s small unmanned aerial systems team successfully completed a capabilities demonstration of BlueHalo’s, American-made Group 1 sUAS for Defense Innovation Unit at a DoD facility in California. BlueHalo was recently awarded a contract to participate in DIU’s Blue 2.0 Prototype OTA effort, designed to streamline government acquisition of approved NDAA
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These agriculture drones start-ups have been contributing their part to the agriculture sector. Agriculture is a sector that is always in the hype. It is one of the most essential parts to keep us all alive. As farmers deal with tough times in monitoring and harvesting crops, new technological trends
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AE Industrial Partners, LP, a US-based private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power generation, and specialty industrial markets, announced that it has expanded its Unmanned and Autonomous platform through the acquisition of Jennings Aeronautics, Inc., a provider of innovative Small Unmanned Aerial Systems. JAI will
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Brussels Airport and skeyes continue to explore the possible uses of drones at the airport with a second series of testing days.These test days specifically focus on the use of drones for bird control at the airport, to monitor the presence of birds and to direct them away from aircraft
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One of Turkey’s leading unmanned aerial vehicles producers, Turkish Aerospace Industries, has inked a contract with Pakistan’s National Engineering and Science Commission (NESCOM) to produce components for TAI’s medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) combat drone, Anka. TAI and NESCOM will be jointly responsible for employment, resource and technology transfer within the scope
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Firemaps, a San Francisco-based start-up company is using drones and 3-D technology to harden homes against wildfires. The Tubbs Fire in 2017 changed Calistoga resident Bill Dyers’ mind about living in a house in the middle of the woods. “We thought that was a cool thing. Once you’ve been through
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Iris Automation’s Casia detect and avoid computer vision system is a leading candidate for equipping drones to avoid other aircraft. The system, which uses off-the-shelf cameras, has been extensively flight tested during the last three years. In the USA the FAA allows waivers and exceptions for drones to operate
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc (GA-ASI) was awarded a USD 30.5 million contract to upgrade Aeronautica Militare Italiana (Italian Air Force, AMI) MQ-9A Predator B medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Block 5 standard, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced. The MQ-9 mid-life modernisation (MLM) contract,
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Former National Security Advisor McMaster and leaders in their fields Lambert and Yamaura will strengthen the company’s presence in the national security and geospatial intelligence arenas Edgybees, the leading visual intelligence technology company, announced today the appointment of Lieut. Gen. H. R. McMaster (US Army, ret.) as the newest
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Primoco UAV SE, the Czech company, and the Army of the Czech Republic successfully tested the Primoco UAV One 150 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) focused on verifying battlefield communication systems and optical reconnaissance sensors. From 6 to 9 September 2021, the military training
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Review: iFlight Mach R5 BNF Racing Drone
The new iFlight Mach R5 is so far my favourite BNF FPV Drone for racing. It’s well designed, cleanly built, top notch quality, and POWERFUL! But is it beginner friendly and should you get it?…
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ANRA Technologies is pleased to announce its participation in the ‘Medicine From The Sky’ initiative in India, spearheaded by the Emerging Technologies Wing of the India government Information Technology Electronics and Communications (ITE&C) Department, in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), NITI Aayog, a public policy think tank of
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El Pollo Loco is set to be the first quick-service restaurant to test drone delivery in the U.S. The “LA Mex” brand will test the capabilities in 10 Southern California locations. It partnered with drone operator Flytrex, which also helped 7-Eleven with its own drone test, to do the flying.
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The Technology Innovation Institute, the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council, has opened a motion-capture testing ground to conduct real-world scenarios with drones in an augmented reality or mixed reality environment. Simulation is key, according to the research team, because unleashing a swarm of cloud-connected drones
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The Defense Digital Service (DDS) is planning to transfer its technologies to sense and detect small unmanned aerial systems to the Air Force Research Lab at the end of the month. AFRL’s NINJA counter-sUAS program will absorb DDS’s drone-sensing capabilities, including its high-fidelity long-range sensor and user interface for integrating
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Chinese researchers say that they have made major strides toward designing a hypersonic drone. In a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Tactical Missile Technology, Beihang University’s Dai Fei and his team posited that they have made significant progress on a classified hypersonic drone model. Their work, first reported by the
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Skeldar V-150 the first UAS platform in its category to fly BVLOS over sparsely populated areas in Europe; latest milestone in V-150’s story discussed at DSEI alongside further planned developments for both Skeldar platforms Europe’s leading provider of Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) UMS Skeldar, is using leading international defence
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TUCSON, ARIZONA JOB ID AS20211008-67195 L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and
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This two-day training course covers all major areas of the FAA Part 107 Aeronautical Knowledge Test with a LIVE instructor for LIVE answers. About this event This two-day training course will cover the major areas of the FAA Part 107 Aeronautical Knowledge Test. Course will cover Regulations, National Airspace System
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Greifswald University Hospital, German air ambulance service DRF Luftrettung and Wingcopter successfully test the safe transport of blood samples by drone Use of Wingcopters can significantly speed up emergency care in rural areas Greifswald/Germany, September 14, 2021 – 26 kilometers (16 miles) between Greifswald and Wolgast – that is the
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London, UK: Altitude Angel, the world’s most trusted UTM (Unified Traffic Management) technology provider, today announced it is to provide pre-flight situational awareness data across Europe, Africa, and Asia to drone operations management platform DroneLogbook. Altitude Angel’s GuardianUTM Cloud will be used to power DroneLogbook’s compliance management platform with accurate,
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China’s first professional test base for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been put into service in Jingbian County, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The Jingbian General Aviation Airport is also known as ASN UAS flight test site. The test base is expected to be built into a national UAV industry comprehensive
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Airspace Link, Inc., a provider of drone mapping and solution software, announced it will be partnering with the City of Las Vegas to launch its new FLYSAFE program, powered by the AirHub platform. This program will enable drones operating in the city to fly safer today while paving the way
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The hybrid UAV ZALA 421-16E5G performed recently a flight which lasted more than 12 hours and covered a distance of more than 1,130 kilometers. Two flight crews practiced simultaneously the unmanned operation with a new high speed communications, control systems and relay implemented at over-the-horizon control points located in different
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In a flight that originated from its Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC) near Grand Forks, N.D., General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. flew a company-owned MQ-9A “Big Wing” configured Unmanned Aircraft System north through Canadian airspace past the 78th parallel. A traditional limitation of long-endurance UAS has been their inability
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